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Sentence Simplification via Large Language Models

23 Feb 2023arXiv:2302.11957archive 2025-07-28

Yutao Feng, Jipeng Qiang, Yun Li, Yunhao Yuan, Yi Zhu

Sentence Simplification aims to rephrase complex sentences into simpler sentences while retaining original meaning. Large Language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to perform a variety of natural language processing tasks. However, it is not yet known whether LLMs can be served as a high-quality sentence simplification system. In this work, we empirically analyze the zero-/few-shot learning ability of LLMs by evaluating them on a number of benchmark test sets. Experimental results show LLMs outperform state-of-the-art sentence simplification methods, and are judged to be on a par with human annotators.

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